SOME ASPECTS OF TEACHING METHODOLOGY FOR THE POPULATION COURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of teaching methods of the population course at the university across various programmes including the MA programme at the TSU Institute for European Studies. There are discussed the main components and organization of the  teaching process of the ‘population’ course. The current problems of demographic policy in the countries across various regions of the world and their reflection in the educational process of the university are also studied.
An important prerequisite for the  economic, intellectual, and political development of any region is the demographic factor as  an  independent fundamental component of society. The population acts as the main producer and consumer of spiritual and material goods. At the same time, it is the main driving force of economic development, the physical, intellectual and spiritual basis of society. For the development of territories of any scale (from global to local) the  study of the functioning of the  demographic system of the population with all its characteristics and accumulated experience and information is a necessary component of building a strategy for further socio-economic development. Leading Master programme students to the profound comprehension of the  mentioned issues requires application of effective teaching methods that will be discussed in the article.